On 23 January 2018 Victoria Rubin was invited to speak to a group of engineering students and researchers. The talk was about creating more morally-savvyView More
Category: Community Outreach
London Public Library Specialists’ Guest Talk at Western
Last week we were fortunate to hear from professionals in the field of Library and Information Science about their programming, reference services and collections forView More
Crossing Language Barriers Poster Session at FIMS, Western
Quiz: What languages are the signs in? What do you think they say? Do they have anything in common? “Crossing Language Barriers for Information ProvisionView More
Automatic “Crap” Detector Op-Ed in Undark, MIT
Fake news is an established problem by now, with nothing much to add to it. Other than, how do we deal with it? We haveView More
Bolder Views of Digital Access in US Library of Congress
Carla Hayden, the new head of the Library of Congress, at a confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, April 2016. [Photo by: Drew Angerer/The New YorkView More
Mediations Team-Talk @Western: Fake News or Truth?
Silverman, Buzzfeed Canada, on Spreading the Truth in an Age of Viral Misinformation
Craig Silverman, the Founding Editor of Buzzfeed Canada, will deliver the Fall 2016 Clissold Lecture entitled “Spreading the Truth in an Age of Viral Misinformation”.View More
Upcoming Talk @ Mediations, Western
[Image caption: “Prototype of a system in R&D”] Save the Date: “Fake News or Truth? Using Satirical Cues to Detect Potentially Misleading News” Thursday, OctoberView More
“Elderly Lies”?! Disseminating Research & Learning Along.
I recently gave a talk about deception at the “55 Up Club” in Lucan, in the vicinity of London, Ontario. Thank you to the Club forView More
Community Building at FIMS
One of the Western University campus newspapers, Western News, acknowledges community building efforts by a FIMS Professor, Dr. Sarah Roberts. “Faculty of Information and MediaView More